Ender's Game

[Legacy]

Has anyone read Ender's Game? More specifically, had you played at least a demo of any version of Critical Mass prior to reading it?

The reason I ask is because no matter how he described the simulator in the books(Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow), I always pictured it as a 3D-ish Critical Mass sort of thing.

Anyone else?

[BoxZone_Author]

Yes I've read Ender Game, however it's

so belongs in the off-topic thread.

[Legacy]

But it is in relation to Critical Mass. Seemed to fit here more than off topic, as I was going somewhere with it.

Was there any really good description of the warships the humans used in battle? I have vague idea of what the buggers' ships looked like in my head, though not sure if accurate to the book. In future versions, if the objects on the screen limit were increased, it would be a spectacular mission to fly something similar to the attack on the bugger homeworld. I also wanted to try and design a ship based on the fighters carried inside the human ships(I believe 3 or 4 were in each larger ship), and wanted to know if anyone really remembered any important details about the ships.

(Also, it was getting lonely on the forums, so my other excuse is temporary insanity from talking to myself.)

[Old Man Johnson]

No, I don't think there were any real description of what they looked like. I mean, the carriers attacking the Bugger homeworld were described as "boxy", I think, but I don't think it got any more in-depth than that. So you've got a lot of room for creative license, there.

[sid6.7]

here is a page with some book covers for the series
you could copy those kind of ships...i dont see anything
boxy looking though..




http://www.ender.com/ender/

[Legacy]

Yeah, I have the box sets, and then some of the Shadow series that I couldn't get in boxed sets, but I've loaned the Ender box out and the box with the first of the Shadow series out, they have most of the pictures showing those yellow wedge-like ships. I was presuming they were either fighters or shuttles, and not the carriers. Of course, I don't think the carriers were strictly carriers, it'd be wasteful to only transport four fighters in a carrier over that distance, so they probably served as less maneuverable but more heavily armed fighters when the battle heated up.